Nora

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simon b 12/26/2023 What is Joyce remembered for? His writing, surely. Yet this film (as far as I watched - about three-quarters) hardly touched on this despite Joyce being rated as one of the 20th century's greatest writers. I hoped to discover the man behind the writing yet the film seem obsessed with his personal/sexual life. Perhaps I should have clung on until the end but the film did not engage me sufficiently. See more 11/02/2013 A film worth seeing just for the performance of Susan Lynch as Nora. See more 07/07/2013 A film about James Joyce and his passionate and troubled relationship with his muse Nora Barnacle through their times in Dublin and Italy. The characters are too exaggerated and the screenplay in general is second rate. The film is dull and has little going for it, apart from a good photography. For a film built around sexual tension and chemistry, this film sure lacks it. See more 06/13/2013 James Joyce and Nora Barnacle fall in love, but societal pressures and sexual obsession complicate their relationship. When I write the one-sentence plot summary in my reviews, I try to find the central conflict; however, finding the central conflict, what keeps this film interesting, is remarkably difficult, and I had difficulty putting my finger on what keeps these lovers apart. At times it is societal pressures about sex and sexuality, and at times the film focuses on Joyce's jealousy, his feeling that it is impossible to truly know Nora sexually. What's worse is that by the end of the film, I didn't see the central conflicts coming to any kind of resolution. What adjustments do these characters make in order to function together? What should we learn from this story? I think the reason I enjoyed this film a little bit is the insight into Joyce's work. We see scenes that are reminiscent of "The Dead," "Araby," and <i>Ulysses</i>. I didn't know that Nora was the inspiration for each of these works, so I guess I learned something. Overall, this isn't a complete film because the conflict isn't resolved and I think one needs to be intimately familiar with Joyce's writing in order to understand it. See more 04/29/2013 Not enough exploration or explanation. You don't quite ever understand why this couple is together or James Joyce's purpose for writing. I wanted more. See more 10/09/2012 Watched this today and its quite possible my new least favorite movie ever. Little better than a soft core porn with depressing dialogue. Joyce is abusive and seems to be a little schizophrenic, Nora is portrayed not as a feminist but more like a doormat who has occasional outbursts of anger. Any discussion of his writing is limited. The characters had no depth, so little fact that even adding about an hour of grotesque, hairy 1920s sexual congress could not hide. And at the end after all this chaos, we are assured they strolled happily into the sunset, living out the rest of their lives together. I would give this movie -5 if that was possible, it was an utter disaster See more Read all reviews

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